Jon Thaler wrote: > Hi, > > I don't see this in the FAQ or any recent posts ... > > I'd like to switch from Microsoft Entourage X (for the Macintosh) to > Mozilla. However, M's address book utility has two undesirable features > (unless I've missed something):
Please search bugzilla for RFEs along these lines, and if you don't find any, file a couple. > * One can't display or search for cards in more than one address book at > a time. This makes finding people difficult at times. I have about > ten address books. This sounds very useful, and probably wouldn't be too hard to implement, even with the current database structure. > * If I want a person to appear in more than one address book (yes, I do > that a lot!), I end up with multiple copies of that person's card. > If I then want to change that person's data (eg, phone number), each > copy nust be found and modified separately. This is painful and error > prone. It is better, in general, to have only one copy of data. > > These two behaviors could be fixed by a (nontrivial!!) restructuring of > the address book database. What is needed is a single database > containing all the cards. The current database format used for cards doesn't scale well, so that is likely to have to wait until either the scaling issues get fixed, or mozilla supports other database formats. Thought is being given to these issues, so feel free to file a bug on this too... Dan
